[PATCH 2/7] pstore/ram: Fix error handling during przs allocation

Anton Vorontsov anton.vorontsov at linaro.org
Tue Jun 19 02:15:51 UTC 2012


persistent_ram_new() returns ERR_PTR() value on errors, so during
freeing of the przs we should check for both NULL and IS_ERR() entries,
otherwise bad things will happen.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov at linaro.org>
---
 fs/pstore/ram.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index 0b36e91..58b93fb 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static void ramoops_free_przs(struct ramoops_context *cxt)
 	if (!cxt->przs)
 		return;
 
-	for (i = 0; cxt->przs[i]; i++)
+	for (i = 0; !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(cxt->przs[i]); i++)
 		persistent_ram_free(cxt->przs[i]);
 	kfree(cxt->przs);
 }
-- 
1.7.10.4




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